Format:
x, 278 Seiten
ISBN:
9780813943404
Series Statement:
Victorian literature and culture series
Content:
Introduction -- The religious critique of virtue: Wesley, Whitefield, Wilberforce -- The impossibility of the evangelical novel -- "Ghastly apparitions": specters of piety in Scott and Hogg -- The curse of the holy law and glimpses of angels in Bleak house -- The ideology of faith in the early career of George Eliot -- Afterword: fanatical imagination in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Content:
"Examining both the theology of John Wesley, George Whitefield, and William Wilberforce and novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sir Walter Scott, and Bram Stoker as well as a host of 'Evangelical novels' of the period, Herbert analyzes the Evangelical and anti-Evangelical forces at play in Victorian literature and culture, challenging accepted notions of the impact of the Evangelical movement on gothic Victorian literature. "--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813943411
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Herbert, Christopher, 1941- author Evangelical gothic Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Herbert, Christopher, - 1941- Evangelical gothic Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019 ISBN 0813943418
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813943411
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Gothic novel
;
Roman
;
Evangelikale Bewegung
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
